store
/stɔɹ/ noun A1- A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept. · Near-synonyms: storeroom, stockroom, warehouse, magazine (archaic)· This building used to be a store for old tires.
- A supply held in storage. · Near-synonyms: stock, supply; cache, stash· They keep a store of canned goods in their basement.
- A building (or portion thereof) where items may be purchased. · Dad went to the store to get milk and bread.
- Memory. · The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.
- A great quantity or number; abundance.
Plural stores
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This effort was framed and hung in the drug store window by the side of the ear of corn with an uneven number of rows.
He rushed downstairs and sent somebody—they said the furnace man or somebody in the basement—out to a drug store for some oil and things to bind it up with.
It had been a gruesome experience, but it served him right, he thought, for committing the heresy of going to a strange store.
After much cogitation Matthew resolved to go to Samuel Lawson’s store instead of William Blair’s.
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